Data archiving removes bulk data which is no longer required in the
System, but which must be retained accessibly, from the database. Data
in the R/3 database can only be archived via archiving objects, which describe
the data structure. Financial accounting documents, for example are archived
via the archiving object FI_DOCUMNT, which comprises the document header,
company-code-dependent postings, change documents, SAPscript texts and
other elements. The application archiving objects are pre-defined in the
system. The archiving programs are scheduled as background jobs, but can
run during on-line processing. The system need not be shutdown.

The archiving procedure comprises two main steps:

Create archive files: the data to be archived are first written sequentially
into a newly created file. The data then exist twice in the database. These
archive files can, e.g. be passed to an archive system, via ArchiveLink.

Execute delete program: the data in the archive files are removed from
the database by the delete program.

You can check how the archive filenames and archive destination are setup
in transactionFILE

Always remembers to check the setting before any archiving. The
settings will determine things like whether the delete programs will start
automatically. (it is not advisable to start your delete programs
automatically).

You can configure all the customizing settings with transaction AOBJ
-
Archive Objects.

MM_MATBEL - Archive material document

OMB9 - Archiving - Material document
retention period.

The default documents life is 200 days. You need to maintain the
documents life for each Plant in your company before you can start archiving.
If you did not maintain, you will get a list with 'Valid.period
not maintained for tr./ev. type of doc.'.

MM_ACCTIT - Archive
accounting interface tables

The documents store in the table are for applications
which are to be supplied with the posting data at a later date of MM Inventory
Management and MM Invoice Verification.

If you are using 3.x, this archiving object might
not be found. You need to import it from sapservX. Read note 89324,
99388, 83076.

Take a look at OSS note 48009
for
the detail explanation of which data is updated in the ACCT* tables.

PP_ORDER- Archive production order

OPJH - Production Order retention period.
Maintain Retention 1 and 2.

If your set your retention 1 and 2 as 10, that means that after 10 days
of setting the delete flag then you can set the deletion indicator.
After 10 days of setting the deletion indicator then you can start archiving.
Therefore, to archive immediately, you can leave retention 1 and 2 as space.
Please take note that retention 1 and 2 act as a safety net if you happened
to archive the wrong record. You will have to decide whether to have
the retention time gap or not.

FI_DOCUMNT - Archive Financial Accounting
Documents

Maintain the account life - transaction OBR7

Maintain the documents life - transaction OBR8

SD_VBRK - Archive Billing Documents

There are no posting date or fiscal year/period selection. You
can only specify the billing documents date. In order that you do
not archive the wrong record, you have to write a ABAP query or report
to print out the various billing documents number ranges you want to archive.
You can extract the data from table VBRK - Billing:
Header Data.

VN01 - Check all the number ranges
for Billing Documents.

Click Overview buttom or Hold the Shift key and press F7.

RV_LIKP - Archiving Deliveries

VORL - Maintain the retention period.
Number of days which must have elapsed since the delivery was created,
before the
delivery can be archived.